NOT AL GORE GREEN

But green. That's the way we like it in AZ. So for the next few weeks, allergy sufferers, well suffer.

A little agronomy lesson from the West. Most of our Spring and Summer grass covering lawns and fairways are Bermuda. Bermuda thrives in the heat. When Winter comes, Bermuda dies out leaving an indiscriminate shade of yellow/brown. Not attractive to the eyes.

The solution is to scalp down the Bermuda and then plant rye grass which thrives in cooler temps. This process is repeated every Fall. There's no need to scalp the rye in the Spring since it will die out or be choked out by the Bermuda. Now why rye seed cannot be thrown on top of the existing Bermuda and let the same process work in the Fall, I really don't know. But those who do know, know, and as Vonnegut said, "So".

While it's hard enough to find golf courses open now (it's called The Overseed Season), it also difficult to be outside with all the allergens in the air. Even our early morning walk was cut short by the scalping and blowing of dust.

So what's a guy to do? Just when the temperatures go down, the dust comes up. Then when the golf courses are nice and Winter green, I can't afford to play anymore.